Acute tracheitis

The trachea is a small part of the respiratory tract, which begins behind the larynx and ends with a split into the bronchi. Acute tracheitis is an inflammation of the trachea mucosa that results from a viral or bacterial infection. Usually this disease is combined with inflammation of the upper respiratory tract and larynx. Most often caused by pneumococcus, influenza rod. It is possible to develop an inflammatory response due to physical factors, such as hot or excessively cold air, or chemical factors - the presence of irritating agents in the air.

Patients with acute tracheitis complain of a dry painful cough, a burning sensation behind the chest, difficulty breathing. Often along with tracheitis, laryngitis is diagnosed, which adds to the general clinical picture a hoarse voice. At the very beginning of the disease, cough is dry, and phlegm is not excreted. After a short time, the cough becomes wet, which facilitates the overall course of the disease.

In case the inflammation passes to the bronchi, the cough increases and the temperature rises, the disease passes into the tracheobronchitis.

There is also a kind of disease, like allergic tracheitis. It is quite common, since trachea is an organ into which an allergen from the external environment easily enters. The patient suffers severe attacks of cough, but nothing clears throat, it is possible to change the voice. Also the patient can feel weakness, lethargy, fatigue, insomnia. To treat this type of tracheitis, you must first determine what exactly triggered the allergic reaction and stop contact with the allergen. To do this, you need to conduct a specialized analysis.

A patient who is diagnosed with an acute tracheitis is shown a sparing bed rest. The room should be periodically ventilated, from smoking should be abandoned at least for the duration of the disease. It is necessary to exclude spicy food, chilled drinks, alcohol. Often prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs and funds that lower the temperature. Remantidine is effective in the first days of treatment. Rapid recovery is promoted by mustard foot baths, inhalations. Good for inhalation eucalyptus leaves, anise and menthol oil, chamomile, plantain, propolis. If the cause of acute tracheitis is a virus, antiviral drugs are recommended. In case there is a lot of pus in the sputum, there is a bacterial infection - you need to fight with antibiotics.

Acute tracheitis in children is manifested in the same way as in adults. When it is treated, hot drink is recommended, for example broth of wild rose, hawthorn infusion , tea with lemon, warm orange or grapefruit juice. Widely used inhalation. In the treatment of tracheitis in young children, diverting procedures are applied: hot wraps, applying mustard plasters on the sternum in the area of the scapula. Used home remedies, such as a compress with camphor alcohol, grinded with lard, a flat cake with honey. For children, phytotherapy, electrophoresis, ultrasonic inhalations are often used. It is very important to increase the body's strength, proper nutrition, vitamins, hardening.

Acute tracheitis is treated with folk remedies. Well-proven inhalation of steam boiled potatoes or decoctions of herbs. Several times a day it is useful to drink freshly squeezed carrot juice. Cough is perfectly helped by the juice of a black radish, which is mixed in half with honey and consumed 3 times a day after meals. The oral cavity and throat is useful to rinse with tincture of the husks of onions or crimson leaves. Also facilitates the general condition with acute tracheitis, the infusion of calendula.